You just wrote an absurdly long article about something you didn't put in
your program. Does that bother you? Do you have any sense of
priorities at all?

Menu bars have been around since the first mouse-driven program was driven
by the first mouse. And there's a reason for that: they work.

Everybody knows there's a hierarchy of learning for software users.
First they click on the things that are easily visible on the screen, like
toolbars. If they can't find it there, they look through the menus. And if
they find a menu option they use frequently, they learn its hotkey and start
using that.

Menus are useful for all kinds of options that are sometimes important
but often not needed, like option toggles. Where would you put the
option for toggling the status bar and toolbars on and off if not on the
menu? Oh sure, you claim that those options aren't important enough so you
left them out. Well, I've got news for you, power users like me like
those options and we use them all the time. Removing features doesn't
improve your program, it makes it less useful. A program
with 80% of the features won't be used by 80% of people, it'll be used by
nobody. And leaving out your menu bar makes falling into that trap all
too easy.

And leaving out menus leads you to also misuse toolbars. I notice
that the "Help" option is a dropdown menu - why not a button? And if it's a
dropdown, then why not in a menu bar? Why is "Recommend to a friend..." in
the Help menu? Just because you were embarrassed to have too many menus,
because it would defeat your point? Oh, that's really mature.

I don't like your giant menu buttons, either. They waste valuable
screen real estate. That's the real value of menu bars and traditional
icon-only toolbars; they pack more power into less space! I see your thing
about Fitt's Law and requiring less mouse agility, but okay, fine; give me a
toggle to choose which mode I want. I'm agile enough to hit a pushbutton of
any reasonable size. Yeesh.

And I can't believe you don't even let me move the toolbar
around. For heaven's sake, the feature is built into Windows now! It's
not like you need to actually code anything. In fact, I feel like you
turned off this ability just to annoy me. On a widescreen monitor,
it only makes sense to put my toolbars on the side, because I've got more
horizontal space than vertical, and it's easier
to read documents when they're narrow anyway.